Senior Director Global Regulatory Lead - Oncology

🏢 Eli Lilly and Company · all Eli Lilly and Company jobs
📍 United States
💰 USD 169,500 - 248,600 / annual
📅 Posted 2026-08-07 · via Himalayas
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At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Purpose:

The purpose of the Senior Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Global Regulatory Lead (GRL) role is to developand implementinnovative global regulatory strategies for product(s) in the assigned therapeutic area. The GRLis the accountable decision maker for the development & execution of global regulatory strategiesfrom portfolio entry to end of life cycle to ensure strategies meet global business objectivesand regional/local affiliate requirements.

The GRL creates and leads the Global Regulatory Team (inclusive of GRA central functions, GRA-CMC,GRA-Devices, and regional regulatory scientists)and is responsible for forming and maintaining ahighly effective global regulatory team. The GRL is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Regulatory Strategy Document (RSD) and ensures local plans, created by the regional regulatory teams, are aligned to the Global Brand Development (GBD)/global program team and business priorities in terms of the program’s value proposition, workflow, product labeling, risk management, and issues management.Accordingly, the GRL is the primary interface with and will represent GRA on GBD/global program team to ensure global input into development plans, provide solutions (created with the regulatory team) to development and regulatory barriers, and reflect and manage risks. The GRL will represent regional regulatory plans to the GBD/global program team and at stakeholder/governance meetings and is responsible to include GRA functional and regional expertsas needed to inform development and manage issues.

For preclinical and early clinical development programs, the GRL leads the USsubmissions and agency interactions. All other agency interactions will be the responsibility of the regional regulatory scientists.

Primary Responsibilities:

Regulatory and Scientific Expertise

Develop, Update and Execute the Global Regulatory Strategy - Initiate and Update Regulatory Strategy Document (RSD)

- Obtain input from the global regulatory team members to develop a global regulatory strategy which supports product (including delivery device and relevant medical devices) development, registration, and lifecycle maintenance globally. Ensure regulatory strategy is integrated into the development team plan from Candidate Selection to End of Product Lifecyle (including NILEX). Develop and implement innovative approaches and solutions, and drive acceleration strategies. Identify and effectively communicate regulatory risks.

- Lead Global Regulatory Team in the development of RSD(s) for assigned programs. Initiate andmaintainregulatorystrategydocuments byleveragingteam expertise, as well as scientific, drug/device clinical development and knowledgefromhealth authorities such as regulatory policies, regulatory precedents, trends, and emerging regulatory science.Integrateinformationfromthe externalenvironment,productspecificregulatoradvice,andotherpublicinformation(i.e.AdvisoryCommittees) to developrobust, innovativeregulatorystrategies and solutions.

- Provide input for and attend key regulatory agency meetings, as needed, that could impact the global product strategy or brand.

- Enable discussion of the RSD and regulatory issues/challenges at the Regulatory Strategy Forum together with Global Regulatory Team.

- Continually expand therapeutic area knowledge. Monitor and assess impact of relevant global regulations, guidance, and current regulatory

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